Word: keenlydrawn
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...know how he has succeeded or failed by a paltry percentage. That the required degree of general excellence was attained is enough; it should not be aggravatingly analyzed, and thus also with men who have not passed. They should not be embittered with such a keenlydrawn line so nearly approached, or with the knowledge that they have lost their degrees by one per cent. in one single study, as in a late notable instance. Harvard has gone far beyond the strictness of high school methods of marking, but there is yet room for a considerable advance toward a broad university...
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